The film tells the story of a wealthy New York socialite and pathological liar whose inability to control her rage on learning of her husband's infidelity leads to the whole family's downfall.
I'm sure a lot of people were nervous about it because it's a big moment, and it's sort of the pinnacle of her rage and pinnacle of her drinking problem [that are] evident in that scene.
His thesis was that Gentileschi – "a modern woman in a patriarchal world" channelled her rage into many of her paintings of wronged women such as Cleopatra, Lucretia or Bathsheba.
During Marija's last two visits to see her father in Belgrade's jail, visits that she made with her mother, she reportedly made no attempt to contain her rage at both of her parents.
Ms. Howe may have intended to search within the soul of an elderly woman, to explore her "rage against the dying of the light," in the immortal words of Dylan Thomas.
Today was the day of her rage: she ranted and wept amid the ruins of her house, picking up a tattered book here, a record album there.
But closer analysis yields another image of this aged woman and another aspect of her rage — the radiance at "the moment despair became hope".
Eleanor's mother thinks vicious neighbors are responsible; Eleanor and her sister blame each other; but the strongest suggestion is that the stones are the work of Eleanor's poltergeist, a paranormal manifestation of her rage and unhappiness.
Though these early chapters of "Island" sometimes make for arduous reading, Ms. Rogers wants to establish firmly Nikki's state of mind, to convey the depth of her despair and self-absorption and the ferocity of her rage.
The expression of her rage is frequently articulate, always physical.
